Receptacles

My painting practice is a meditation.

The paintings are a receptacle – a place to catch and hold all the swirling, buzzing ideas that rise up once I start doing instead of thinking. During the action of painting my mind is often quietened and on a good day I will work in a state of meditative flow. It is not always like this. Sometimes I am in a rush to get stuff done and I go about the day in starts and stops, hovering over various surfaces, not able to stay with one for something else becomes more pressing. Often a session will begin with simply, stopping, sitting, looking, and listening to what comes up while spending time with a either a finished painting or work in progress . I will always keep a notebook open to jot down observations and reflections and so I decided to record them here too.